The better way? Me thinks not

Now that I've been back in the city for a little over three months I can safely say the honeymoon is over!

Taking the metro into work this morning, all my old feelings (annoyance, aggravation and anger, to name but a few) came flooding back.

Every time I lineup to take the metro, whether it be in the morning on my way to work or in the evening on my way home, I feel like George Costanza. I mean... we are living in a society here, right??? So why doesn't anyone else seem to be aware of that?

The rules of society (it's called first-come, first-served people) and the Societe de Transport de Montreal, or STM for short, dictate that everyone wait their turn. The STM even took the time, and spent taxpayers' money might I add, to have diagrams drawn on the ground of every metro platform, so commuters would know exactly where to lineup before embarking.   

But nooooooo.  

At least 50% of commuters disregard these diagrams completely, budding ahead of the other 50% of people who are desperately "trying to live in a society here!" 

Getting on the metro is literally like whatever sport is most like a shoving match. Football perhaps? Or maybe rugby?

Gripe #2: Move to the back of the bus assholes! 

Every time I force my way onto a "packed" bus and literally squeeze and curse my way to the back of said bus, I want to take a picture.

Why, you may ask?

Because the entire back of the bus is EMPTY!

That's right. Emp-ty.

Most commuters are too stupid selfish to realize that if they move to the back of the bus others will be able to get on - as opposed to freeze their buns off while they watch half-full buses drive by without stopping because there is "no space left."

URGH!

My last anger-fueled rampage is aimed at pedestrians who think they own the sidewalk.

You don't!

While you and your three friends may enjoy walking down St. Catherine Street arm in arm a la Sex in the City, I will not jump out of your way, into a ditch or oncoming traffic, so you can do so. I will continue walking and make direct physical contact with you.

And we're back to football... 

While the Toronto Transit Commission's slogan is "the better way," I suggest the STM's should be "the most annoying way."  

And I could really do without the music every. single. time. the metro doors open and close...